George william odell



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carr er) STATES PATENT m n GEORGE WILLIAM onELnoF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

2 rinn-ennn-omrriive MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. .Pate t d J 2 V I Application filed August 26, 1914, Serial No... 858,591. Renewed November 19,1919. Serial No.33 9 ,051

To all whom it may concern 'Be it. known that I, GEORGE WI LIAM ODIELL, a subject of thelKing of Great Britain, and resident of 298 St. James street, in the city and district'of Montreal, Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Time-Card-Chppmg Machines;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The invention relates time card clipping machine and calculator, as described in the present specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel means employed for preparing aeard as an instrument adapted to operate a stamping mechanism.

The objects of the invention are to devise.

a machine thatthe workman cannot gainsay as to the correct record of his time occupied on any one job or any one day or part thereof, to simplify and cheapen the construction of such devices and generally to provide an eiiicient and durable machine.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the distance measuring device.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view on the line AB in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the card whole and ready for the first operation.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the card after the first operation.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the card after the Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the clipping device.

Fig. 7 is a cross sectional view of the knives, showing their bearings and springheld pivot pins.

The numeral 1 indicates a channeled plate,

having the longitudinal slot 2 extending from end to end, the flanges 3 being undercut to form the slide grooves 4t. On top of the flanges 3 the blades 5 of a shearing mechanism are rigidly secured, said members having a cutting edge 6 and being inwardly turned at the front ends 7 and supported on similar inwardly extending extensions from the flanges 3, thus forming angular blades with the inner edges sharpened and with which the movable blades 9 coact, said blades 9 being fixedly secured at their rear ends to the pivot 10, the latter being to improvements in which bear on the ends of the bearingp'in 10; 'and this pin is encircled by. spiral springs also fastened to the pins 10*" and to the lugs 12, the tendency is to throw the free endso'f the blades 9 upwardly so that a card can be inserted thereunder. Each blade 9 has a knob 13 on top thereof atthe free ends said-knobs being for convenience in operating the bladesv to cut the clippings out of the card. i

The plate 15. having the flanges 16 slides into channel plate 1 and along the center of t the bottom the rack 17 is attachedthereto and thisrack extends through the longitudinal slot 2 where it coacts with thegear wheel 18 in driving the plate 15, the said gear wheellS being part of a clock mechanism inclosed in a casing 19. i

The channel of the plate 1 isnot quite as deep as the thickness of the plate15, consequently the upper surfaces of the flanges 3 are belowthe upper surface of the plate 15,

thus anything. placed on top of said flanges will be below the surface of the plate 15 and in this way the end of said plate 15 forms the traveling stop for .any sheetmaterial that may be inserted in the machine under the movable blades of the shearing mechanism,

The full width of the card 20 is. exactly the same as the full width over all of the channeled plate 1 at the. front end, consequently when the said card 20 is inserted the inner end of said card will be stopped by the plate 15 and the longitudinal edges of the card will be beyond the shearing line of. the blades, therefore to make a clipping it is only necessary to press down a springheld blade. 2

In practice this is done at one side only at a time. The moving plate 15, forming the sliding stop, is first set in motion and its movement is made to correspond to a period of time, that is to say, to travel its complete length must occupy a predetermined period of time usually it would run for an eight or card to obtain its first clipping, that is to say, he may arrive at his work at seven in the morning, eight or ten oclock, it is of no consequence for the piece taken off is just so much longer. The later he arrives, there fore shortens the distance between the shoulders -formed by the clippings from the card as will be explained hereinafter.

The workman on finishing for the day or the morning again inserts his card in the machine and this time clips the other side, that is to say, presses down the opposite blade, and the result will show that the sliding stop has traveled a distance measuring a portion of a day.

' The card when withdrawn will show two longitudinal clippings from the edges forming shoulders 21 and 22, the shoulder 22 being deeper in the card than the shoulder 21 and it is the diflerence in longitudinal distance between the depth lines of these shoulders that measures the time of the worker.

The type rolls 42 are of different diameters gradually increasing in size from one end to the other and the dogs 33 are arranged respectively in relation to said rolls, so that when one dog escapes being thrown back according to the position of the slot 23 in a card, the type rolls slide past until the proper one engages the dog remaining ready to form a stop.

The spring pull on the roll accomplishes this movement.

Briefly the operation of the invention is as follows The workman obtains his card as customary in the works and on passing in pushes the card between the jaws of the shearing mechanism illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 6.

I He then presses on one of the knives and this clips a strip from one side of the card leaving a shoulder.

The length of the strip taken away is regulated by the distance the sliding stop has traveled. up to the time the workman arrives. This stop is turned to run with clock like precision, so that it will take exacting the length of the working period or periods of the day to travel its full length, of course it may be stopped during dinner hour or any other stoppage of the works.

In any case to make the description clearer it may be taken for example that the sliding stop takes ten hours to run its full trip one way.

If the work begins at seven in the morning and the workman arrives at that hour he moves in with a whole card, but if he arrives two hours late that length of strip is taken from one side of his card. As he leaves the works he again inserts his card as far as it will go against the stop and clips a strip from the other side and it is the distance in a longitudinal straight line between the terminii of the clipped parts that represents the time the workman has been employed.

What I claim is:

In a time card clipping device, a channeled body member forming a bed and having undercut flanges forming on the top thereof level card surfaces and slotted intermediately in the outer sides for approximately one half their length, forming cutting edges in said slotted portion, a pair of knives, one at each side, in said slots and coacting with said cutting edges and spring-held to their upper positions and operable independently, a plate sliding in said channel and shaped to ill said undercuts and in cross section eX- tending above said card surfaces and forming an adjusting abutment for the end of a card laid on said card surfaces and clock gear mechanism for operating said sliding plate.

Signed at the city of Montreal in the Province of Quebec this 23rd day of July,

GEORGE VILLIAM ()DETJTJ. lVitnesses C. U. SHANLEY, J. SULLIVAN. 

